6 A few days ago, the news that the former chairman of Tsinghua Group , Zhao Weiguo was investigated suddenly came.
It is reported that in early July, Zhao Weiguo, former chairman of Unigroup, was taken away from his home in Beijing by relevant departments and is still in a state of losing contact with the outside world. Different sources said that Zhao Weiguo's investigation may be related to the transfer of interests between the company he personally controls and the former company under Unigroup Group, such as equipment procurement, decoration projects, and other unpublic bidding issues.
In this regard, lawyer Xu Tong, a member of the lawyer expert database of " Law Daily " and senior partner of Beijing Yingke (Shanghai) Law Firm, analyzed that if the relevant source of information is true, there is a transfer of interests between the company controlled by Zhao Weiguo and the former company under the Unigroup Group, which may constitute the crime of collusion to bid for . Such illegal acts have shown a high incidence among corporate executives and actual controllers in recent years, which to a certain extent is related to the lack of accurate understanding or improper understanding of relevant laws by business operators.
public information shows that Zhao Weiguo is from Shawan County, Xinjiang. In 1985, he was admitted to the Department of Electronic Engineering of Tsinghua University and obtained undergraduate and master's degrees. In 1996, after graduating from a master's degree, Zhao Weiguo joined the Unigroup Group and served as the deputy general manager of the Automation Engineering Department of Unigroup; in 2005, he founded Beijing Jiankun Investment Group Co., Ltd.; in 2010, Zhao Weiguo invested 35.3% of the shares when Unigroup fell into a loss, which later increased to 49%. He was responsible for the actual operation of the company, served as president and chairman, and gradually shifted his development focus to the integrated circuit industry.
When Zhao Weiguo first took over the Unigroup, the asset scale of Unigroup was only about 1.3 billion yuan. By the end of 2015, the total assets of Unigroup had expanded to 105.4 billion yuan. As of the end of 2019, the total assets of Unigroup Group were close to 300 billion yuan, mainly Unigroup Co., Ltd. , Unigroup Guowei , Unigroup Zhanrui and Yangtze Storage . Zhao Weiguo also "has a big increase in value" as a result. Zhao Weiguo ranked 124th in the Hurun Rich List in 2019, with a wealth of 25 billion yuan.
Law Network Research Institute noticed that Zhao Weiguo has been holding up the banner of "chip" and making great progress after he took over the Tsinghua Group, and Zhao Weiguo himself was once called a "chip madman" by the industry. In 2015, when Zhao Weiguo was the most glorious, Unigroup spent more than 60 billion yuan to make more than a dozen moves, including a US$2.5 billion acquisition of IT communication equipment company new H3 H3 , a US$3.8 billion in global storage giant Western Data , a US$600 million in semiconductor packaging and testing manufacturer Taiwan Licheng Technology, etc.
However, the good times did not last long. In November 2020, Unigroup defaulted on bonds, which triggered a debt crisis since then. On July 16, 2021, under the application of creditors, Unigroup entered the bankruptcy reorganization procedure at , Beijing No. 1 Intermediate People's Court. On December 10, 2021, a consortium composed of Beijing Zhilu Asset Management and Beijing Jianguang Asset Management invested more than US$9 billion (RMB 60 billion) to take over the Unigroup Group.
According to reports, Zhao Weiguo later "disguised" reflection on his "ambitions". He once said in public: "Many of our companies have problems over the years because of excessive ambitions, they think they can do everything, and they believe that luck will happen again. In fact, your ability and boundaries are not that far away, and your luck is not that good, so you must be careful to manage your ambitions and luck." The Institute of Law Network also noticed that shortly before the news of Zhao Weiguo's investigation was exposed, Unigroup had completed personnel changes.
On July 11, Unigroup and its subsidiaries issued an announcement stating that the industrial and commercial change registration procedures had been completed on the same day. The original shareholders Tsinghua Holdings Co., Ltd. and Beijing Jiankun Investment Group all withdrew, and the company's 100% equity has been registered under the name of Beijing Zhiguangxin Holdings Co., Ltd.The board of directors elected Li Bin, the actual controller of Zhilu Capital, as chairman and general manager, to replace Zhao Weiguo, the former chairman who had been in charge of Unigroup for 12 years. Since then, the era of Zhao Weiguo in the Ziguang system has come to a meaningful end.
6 Qichacha APP shows that Zhao Weiguo currently has 119 enterprises, serving in 116 enterprises, and most of them are in a state of existence; among them, 63 enterprises are controlled, including the main investment entity Beijing Jiankun Investment Group Co., Ltd., which Zhao Weiguo holds 70% of the shares and serves as the chairman and the legal representative of . The companies controlled by Zhao Weiguo also include Tibet Jiankun Zaiwu Venture Capital Co., Ltd., Tibet Jiankun Industrial Co., Ltd., Beijing Zihu Information Technology Co., Ltd., etc.
"Zhao Weiguo serves as the legal representative and senior executive of so many companies. When one person serves as the actual controller of several companies, it is very likely that the company's funds he actually controls will be borrowed and misappropriated without passing the corresponding legal process. Therefore, it may also constitute a crime of misappropriation of funds." Xu Tong said.
Once the company's person in charge is taken away by the relevant departments, he will be in a state of losing contact with the outside world for a period of time. In this case, how should the relevant company respond?
In this regard, Zhu Guanghui, a member of the Lawyer Expert Database of the "Rule of Law Daily" and a partner of Beijing Jingtian Gongcheng Law Firm, suggested:
first. Relevant enterprises should actively cooperate with the investigation work of relevant departments, provide materials involved in the case in accordance with the requirements and progress of the relevant departments, try to shorten the investigation time of the case, and allow the case to be resolved in stages as soon as possible;
second. Relevant enterprises should make accurate, effective and unified responses in the face of social public opinion and rumors, avoid public opinion fermentation and reduce the negative impact on the corporate image;
Third, set up an emergency team to make effective decisions and management of the daily operations of the company when the person in charge cannot exercise its management powers;
Fourth, contact the family to entrust a lawyer as soon as possible to seek a meeting with the person in charge, and submit an application for bail to the case handling department in accordance with the law. Before approval, try to communicate with the person in charge through the form of meetings;
Finally, on the basis of further understanding of the case, take corresponding risk isolation measures to avoid unnecessary damage to the company due to the personal behavior of the person in charge.
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topic planning｜Legal Network Research Institute
text｜Huang Meiling Shen Ruoshui
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6 Producer｜Yu Yingbo
Editing｜Li Zhaodi
Source: Legal Network
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